That i think so many of us dont understand, but people are living through this right now. You end of, we both have children. We think about the a motions that are foreign, and the hope that you have when you have a newborn to raise your child together with a person that you love. But to have that news come in that way, after what has happened, it is unimaginable. And that they were able to share that really just, it underscores that real cruel reality of what were in right now, abby. Yeah, absolutely. That brutality, but theres also so much hope. And i just want to end on that note before you get started. There is a lot of hope still out there. So well and with that. Abby, thank you so much. And speaking of what could be tomorrow, it is actually already tomorrow. In israel. But the summit is actually not bringing more answers on the fifth day of a brutal war. And i dont know about you, but every time i see the death toll rise, my mind, it immediately goes to the hostages. I wonder, whe
how do other federal governments ramp up resources to protect synagogues, new york city is doing the same, los angeles is doing the same. what actually do local police departments do? what is the nypd doing, for example, right here? based on community relations, you will reach out to the jewish community synagogues and make clear you are giving additional patrols to their areas to their communities. in baltimore, we would put special deployments out specifically when there were incidents of this type in the jewish community. it s not hard for law even
great loss as well. what s being done to help those survivors at this point? so right now there s many different avenues that officials are pursuing. so, for example, at the federal level there is some individual assistance that families can apply for through fema. but, of course, there s been an outpouring of support from the community. there was a big jewish community living in this building, and the jewish community synagogues, israeli organizations, have really come together to try to raise funds to volunteer in the short term, filling the immediate needs of blankets and food and just really anything families need. today we heard from officials again that even though some families may be feeling that they lost all of their property, they really don t know where to begin although they have survived this terrible tragedy. their needs will not go unmet.